An Amtrak Keystone train, led by a Metroliner cab car, arrives at the recently renovated Mount Joy station in Pennsylvania. Next stop, Harrisburg.
The Pennsylvania Railroad relocated this station in a deep cut in 1896 to separate it from the street traffic above. A brick and wood depot was built at street level and stood until demolished in 1976. What you see here is the fruition of a 3 year, $30.5 million dollar project which included the installation of a new overhead pedestrian bridge, two 500-foot-long high-level platforms with canopies, all new lighting, stairways, additional parking and accessibility improvements such as elevators between the platforms and street. The new station includes elements that reference the Victorian and other 19th century architecture found in downtown Mount Joy.
From a hint of "Bee" (NKP 765), colorful "Bees" (KCS), "Bees" w/ "attitude", to "Bees" that "sting" your eyes, in their own way they have "Bee" on display! Equipment that "Buzzes" with Yellow & Black colors! ("Bees" can still "Bee" entering this "hive"!)
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)
